Beaver-fur top hat made in Paris ca. 1815. Accession M.2007.211.827 of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Public domain.

Pair of metal hoop earrings (ear bobs) used as trade goods between 1750 and 1837.

Hair-pipe bone beads used in the fur trade no earlier than 1700 and no later than 1837.

Leather moccasins beaded with a geometric design. Originally owned by John Other Day (Wahpeton Dakota) and given to Stephen Return Riggs, a missionary and government interpreter among the Dakota in southwestern Minnesota, ca. 1860.

A Dakota, possibly Yankton, beaded knife sheath dating to the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Two beaded tassels are attached to the sheath's bottom; one tassel ends in metal cones. A string ending in metal cones connects the sheath's sides on either side of its opening. The reverse side of the sheath is undecorated save for a few rows of blue beads near the opening.

Double string of beads includes glass, clay and agate beads; the strand is divided into four rings that are separated by a flat white bead with double holes. The beads are mostly amber colored with a few faceted, round, or cylindrical beads. Additional colors range from plain blue, yellow, or green to multicolored figured beads. The beads were restrung in 1962, but the original bead order has since been restored.

Dakota necklace made from a string of light pink amber glass beads of various sizes and shapes. The beads are European glass of the type used in the fur trade, are worn, and have been restrung on a nylon cord. Made ca. 1890.

Three opaque light blue pony beads made between 1700 and 1837.

A Dakota beaded and quilled leather storage or "possibles" bag. The bag is rectangular in shape, with porcupine-quilled red lines on the front and beaded geometrics on the sides, and is decorated with tufts of yellow and purple horsehair emerging from metal cones. Made by Nancy McClure Faribault, wife of David Faribault, circa 1880.

The plaque at the base of the Iron Man Memorial in Chisholm features a poem written by Veda Ponikvar that uses the monument’s formal title, “Emergence of Man Through Steel.” Photograph by David Rian, December 2020.